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"I wonder if they would let us take part in some of the games this afternoon," inquired Tad. "Why, of course they will. I'll speak to Mr. Jessup about it," answered Tom Phipps. When the owner of the ranch passed them later on, Tom called him, and after introducing the boys to him, told the rancher what they desired to do. Mr. Jessup looked the lads over critically.
I know that a few days, perhaps a few hours, will bring me some degree of comfort and courage; will make life, with all its disappointments and vexations, endurable at least. Would to Heaven I were not quite alone! Left thus to my greatest enemy, myself, I feel that I am capable of deeds which I fear to name. A few minutes ago I was anxious to find Miss Jessup; to gain another interview with Mrs.
It was still somewhat painful to the touch, but from the ease with which he could get about, Buck had a notion that at the worst the bone was merely cracked. "They wouldn't be likely to notice where you left the Paloma trail, would they?" Buck asked, after a brief retrospective silence. "Not unless they're a whole lot better trackers than I think for," Jessup assured him.
Patsy was the first out of the tonneau, and she reached the boy almost as soon as Gregory Jessup. "Damn them! That's the second time in my life I've seen a machine run some one down and sneak " He broke off at Patsy's sharp cry: "Holy Mary keep him! 'Tis the wee lad from Lebanon!"
The man we found living there seemed like an old friend; he had come from near Fort Jessup, Louisiana, where the officers of the 3d and 4th infantry and the 2d dragoons had known him and his family. He had emigrated in advance of his family to build up a home for them.
Do you suppose, if I put Tenny wise to what I was after, that he'd let me have a cayuse and pack-horse, and stake me to enough grub to keep me a week or two in the mountains back of the Shoe-Bar?" "He might, especially when he knows you're buckin' Tex; he never was much in love with Lynch." Jessup paused, eyeing his companion curiously.
Jessup, and inaugurates a sad tale of adventure in which him and Pieface Lumley has a skinning-match of dead cows in '95 for a silver-mounted saddle in the Santa Rita valley during the nine months' drought. "Now, from the start of that courtship I had Paisley Fish hobbled and tied to a post. Each one of us had a different system of reaching out for the easy places in the female heart.
It had no tune in it, no intelligible words; it was just a chant rising and falling, as the surf might rise and fall around the base of that Island for which his eyes sought the green vale right away to the horizon. Mr. Jessup looked up from his work. His eyes encountered Tilda's, and Tilda's were smiling. But at the same time they enjoined silence. The boy sang on.
The statements were made, yes; there was plenty of evidence produced to show this; but it was done in a way which, somehow or other, did not produce an intense conviction. Jessup had secured from his board of directors an appropriation of fifty thousand dollars for a national advertising campaign.
Jessup, looking at me peculiar in the dark, 'if it wasn't for but one thing, I'd ask you to hike yourself down the gulch and never disresume your visits to my house. "'And what is that, ma'am? I asks. "'You are too good a friend not to make a good husband, says she. "In five minutes Paisley was on his side of Mrs. Jessup.
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